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Whatever buried the horse did so rapidly and catastrophically. Fast-flowing water mixed with fresh volcanic ash and washed over the diverse assembly of creatures, burying them alive and trapping them in the Green River's series of basins. The Genesis Flood provides a context for that catastrophe.

Wouldn't the Genesis flood put out the volcanos? So where did the ash come from?

Funny you mention volcano's:

Bible:

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth,

Science:

Volcanic gases undergo a tremendous increase in volume when magma rises to the Earth's surface and erupts. For example, consider what happens if one cubic meter of 900°C rhyolite magma containing five percent by weight of dissolved water were suddenly brought from depth to the surface. The one cubic meter of magma now would occupy a volume of 670 m3 as a mixture of water vapor and magma at atmospheric pressure (Sparks et. al., 1997)! The one meter cube at depth would increase to 8.75 m on each side at the surface. Such enormous expansion of volcanic gases, primarily water, is the main driving force of explosive eruptions.

The most abundant gas typically released into the atmosphere from volcanic systems is water vapor (H2O), followed by carbon dioxide (CO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2). Volcanoes also release smaller amounts of others gases, including hydrogen sulfide (H2S), hydrogen (H2), carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen chloride (HCL), hydrogen fluoride (HF), and helium (He).

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hazards/gas/

Did Moses know volcanoes released water or was he just lucky?

Wouldn't the Genesis flood put out the volcanos? So where did the ash come from?

Good question.

Many volcanoes may have erupted before being swallowed by the Great Flood, pumping out and emitting noxious gases, sulfur, and ash. But also afterward, once the waters receded and land emerged.

FWIW, the great North Atlantic ridge is longest, unbroken mountain chain in the world. Even if submerged, might they still have emitting these same gases, sulfur and lava? During the Great Flood the planet convulsed far beyond our imagination.

As an aside, can you imagine thousands of Mt. St. Helens erupting at the same time -- along with the Flood?

Extinction of many animals -- including dinosaurs -- may well have been the result of the volcanic pollution, lack of sunlight, the Flood, change in climate. Take your pick.

Wouldn't the Genesis flood put out the volcanos? So where did the ash come from? ...”

no one advocated that.
but volcanoes are useful for land building and lifting.
volcanoes have been active since the flood abated..
They even exploded and buried living organism, as they have done today (Pompeii, st Helens)
and at some point in our past there may have been many volcanoes at once